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| <title>BitlBee: Security bypass</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| Multiple vulnerabilities in Bitlbee may allow to bypass security |
| restrictions and hijack accounts. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">bitlbee</product> |
| <announced>September 23, 2008</announced> |
| <revised>September 23, 2008: 01</revised> |
| <bug>236160</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="net-im/bitlbee" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">1.2.3</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">1.2.3</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| BitlBee is an IRC to IM gateway that support multiple IM protocols. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities were reported, including a NULL |
| pointer dereference. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to overwrite |
| existing IM accounts. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All BitlBee users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/bitlbee-1.2.3"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3920">CVE-2008-3920</uri> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3969">CVE-2008-3969</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:44:15 +0000"> |
| p-y |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:00:27 +0000"> |
| p-y |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:14:39 +0000"> |
| p-y |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |